A few days ago, I took at look through Amazon and MakeBeer.net to see if the Coopers Irish Stout I have been waiting for was back in stock. It has been unavailable since before St. Patrick’s Day. I guess all the Irish scooped it up.
Guess what? I was in luck. A new shipment of ingredients had arrived from Australia. I quickly ordered the Irish Stout kit and it arrived today. This is just in the nick of time, because I am running really low on my existing batch of regular Stout.
I am pretty excited about this upcoming batch. The ingredients include some extra malt for some reason. It says that it gives the beer a better head retention and something else…I forget. Whatever…if it makes the beer better, I’m on board.
I mixed everything togther tonight and placed the jug downstairs near the boiler. It’s a warmer, constant temperature down there. The brew has to stay between 70 and 80 degrees.
Here, I took some pics…
It’s pretty hard to take pictures in the dark. I had to turn on the flash, which I hate to do.
This was going to be my favorite shot, but it came out a little blurry. I tried to clean it up in Photoshop.
Here is that familiar jug we have all gotten used to by this point.
I really hope this batch comes out good because I have been waiting for it for a long time.
My brother has gotten into brewing his own beer but I’ve never sampled. How does it compare?
I gotta say, it’s pretty good. This is the richest brew Coopers offers, so it will be more up my alley. When I taste it in a few weeks, I’m sure I will give a review.
One thing I have to figure out is how to get that chocolate and coffee taste in these beers.
Have you tried adding coffee or chocolate to the mix? I’m pretty sure that’s all that they do, just they know the right proportions to get the desired strength/flavor.
OR you could just fill a glass half full of beer and half of coffee….
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